“…As a fundamental research to elucidate the function and effects of metal ions and/or atoms in biological systems, we have been investigating the ESR and optical properties of 1B metal atoms produced radiation-chemically by reducing their mono cations in solid solutions [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. In the series of our previous studies, formation of metal atoms, Cu 0 , Ag 0 and Au 0 in irradiated solid solutions containing their mono cations were evidenced by ESR spectra that exhibited duplicate quartets [10], duplicate doublets [8] and quartet [12], respectively. The values of the hyperfine splitting, a and the gyromagnetic ratio for the electron shell, g J were evaluated from the Breit-Rabi equations that were applied for the case of isotropic forces of interaction between trapped atoms and ligands.…”